Portable carrier



March 18, 1947. s, R. KOOLMS PORTABLE CARRIER Filed OC- l1, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 March 18, 1947. s, R KOOLNis 2,417,421

PORTABLE CARRIER Filed Oct. 1l, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mar. 18, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PORTABLE CARRIER Stanley R. Koolnis, Stamford, Conn.

Application October 11, 1940, Serial No. 360,715,

This invention relates to containers and more especially to portable carriers for conveniently and securely transporting a plurality of bottles.

An object of this invention is to provide an efllcient carrier for bottles and the lke of simple construction which may be utilized with the minimum of effort in the placement of bottles therein and their displacement therefrom.

Comprehensively stated the invention is directed to a carrier adapted to receive a plurality of bottles, comprising a pair of upstanding walls adapted to retain the bottles in position and secure them against relative movement by means omembers struck out and bent inwardly from the side walls.

More specically stated the invention comprises a portable carrier of the class described made of a strip of cardboard, or the like, the extremities of the two upstanding side walls of which are brought together at the top and terminate in registering openings constituting a handle or hand grip, said extremities being permanently secured one to the other, so that there are required no manual operations whatever for the assembly and disassembly of the carrier in practice, the side walls being so arranged as to permit of the loading of bottles into the carrier from the outside thereof as distinguished from the more usual expediency of loading the bottles from the inside of disassembled carriers, which, after loading, are operatively assembled.

In the drawings accompanying this specification one embodiment of the invention is illustrated, but it is to be understood that this embodiment is presented merely for the purpose of affording a clear understanding of the principles underlying the invention, so that those skilled in the art may readilv understand it. and is not to be accepted as limiting the invention to the specic details shown.

In said drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a portable carrier embodying my invention, said carrier being shown as filled with bottles;

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from which the carrier is formed, and

Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation of the blank 6 Claims. (Cl. 224-45) 1, 2 and 3, a base or bottom wall A has projecting upwardly from each side thereof vertically disposed side walls B which side walls are inwardly bowed from their vertical disposition toward each other into engagement as at C, eX- tending thence upwardly in contact one with the other and nally terminating in registering apertures in such manner as to constitute a carrying handle as at D.

At or about the point of contact the two -side walls are permanently secured one to the other as by stitching, riveting or the like, being shown in the present embodiment of the invention as secured by wire staples E, three of which are shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to Fig. 4 there is illustrated thereby the blank constituting the invention, which comprises a single strip of thin cardboard, the opposing side walls B of which are identically cut away and scored to permit of portions thereof to lbe inturned and by their inturning to provide bottle-receiving openings and bottle-engaging members whose purpose it is to prevent lateral displacement of the positioned bottles. It will be observed that in Figs. 4 and 5 the full lines indicate where the blank is cut away and the dotted lines indicate scoring where the so cut away portions may be advantageously bent.

A generally arcuate guard tab or strip is struck out from the blank which is designated by the reference character F and is shown at its base as being scored for ease in bending as at F'. This strip F is shown at its free extremity as being permanently secured as by a staple F (Fig. 4) to its companion strip which is struck out from the opposite side wall. These two attached tabs or strips F, being bent inwardly, form at each end of the carton, bottle retaining guards as clearly indicated in Fig. 2.

Struck out from the blank beside the tab F is a separator tab G, the assembled pair of which in practice lie sidefby side and depend between the two bottles disposed at each end of the carton carrier, functioning as spacing and cushioning means therebetween, as shown most clearly in Fig. 3.

Between the tab members F there are shown a pair of infoldable spanner members H which when infolded into operable position, as shown most clearly in Figs. 2 and 3, engage the inner sides of the two end bottles serving with the guard tabs F to fxedly hold in place the end bottles. The lower extremities H' of the spanner members H extend at each side of the intermediately tioning of the Y-shaped portions I provide in I the side walls apertures for the receptionof the Y.

intermediately disposed bottles.

It is to be observed that provisionV is made;4 I

whereby cooperative engagement may be had between the inwardly extending extremities of the two opposed guard tabs F and the depending separator tabs G, saidA extremities being spread apart as -at J for the reception therebetween of the two adjacently disposed tabs G, as clearly indicated in Fig. 3.. f

AThe base or bottom wall A is, in Fig. 4, shown by dottedlines as being scored to Ifacilitate folding at three points, the intermediate yscore line being for vthe purpose of Dermitting'the folding of the two opposed side wallsjinto flat engagement with each other as'indicated in Fig. `5, which lmakes a compact and therefore desirable form in which the cartons may Ybe shipped.

It Willbe apparent that when the members F land H are inturned, and the members G centrally disposed, to occupy their respective operative positions, there will be provided, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 2, ample apertures in the converging side walls wherethrough the bottles may be readily deposited within the carton carrier from the outside thereof.

It will also be apparent that when the filled carton is lifted' for carrying pfurposes there will be an upward pull upon the opposed side walls thereof tending t0 straighten out their curvatures which will impart to the bottle sides at the point where the edge of the carton engages the bottle sides, as at K (Fig. 2), an inward thrust whereby the bottles, when carried, will be more securely heldvagainst displacement.

It is to be observed that all of the portions struck out from the side walls are projected from a single localized portion of the side wall and that by the displacement from such emanating source apertures are provided each of which apertures is of a vcross-sectional area slightly in excess of the,` greatest cross-sectional area of a bottle, so that bottles may be readily loaded into the carton from the outside thereof and any one of which may be freely removed therefrom.

It is claimed:

1. In a portable bottle carrier having score lines and cut lines defining a bottle supporting section, two side sections, two bottle receiving sections with at least one bottle receiving opening in each, at least one handle carrying section and a multiple number of strips connecting the handle carrying section and its side section, the improvement in blanks for such bottle carrier which comprises at least two complementarily positioned aps, at least one in each bottle receiving section forming at least part of the cut and scored portions defining a bottle receiving opening, each flap being connected to and scored at a marginalside edge of its opening so as to form in the assembled carrier, when said ap is turned about its score, a bottle conning member, and means for securing the free ends of complementary flaps to each other.

2. In a portable bottle carrier having score lines and cut lines dening a bottle supporting section, two side sections, two bottle receiving sections with at least two outer and at least one inner bottle receiving opening in each, at least one handle carrying section and a multiple number of strips connecting thehandle carrying section and `its side section, thev improvement in blanks for such bottle carrierwhich "comprises a multiple number of pairs of complementarily positioned aps, at least one such pair for each adjacent two outer bottle receiving openings, each flap forming at least part of the scored and cut portions'dening its bottle receiving opening and being connected to` and scored at a marginal side edge of its opening so as to form in the assembled carrier,`when said ap is turned about its score, a bottle confining member, and means for secur- `ing the free ends of complementary flaps to each other. 3. In a portable bottle carrierhavingscore lines and cut lines defining `a bottle lsupporting section, twoiside sections, two bottle receiving sections With at least one bottle receiving opening in each, at least one handle carrying section and a multiple number offstrips` connecting the handle carrying section and its side section, the improvement in blanks for such bottle carrier whichcomprises at least two complementarily positioned rst flaps, at least one in each bottle receiving section forming part of the cut and scored portions defining a bottle receiving opening and each being connected to its handle carrying section to form in the assembled Carrier, a substantially vertically extending bottle confining member, at least two complementarily positioned second flaps, at least one in each bottle receiving section forming part of the cut and scored portions defining a bottle receiving opening, each second flap being connected to and scored at a marginal lside edge of its opening so as to form in the asy, sembled carrier, when said second flap is turned about its score, a bottle confining member, and means for securing the free ends of complementary second flaps to each other.

4. In a portable bottle carrier the improvement in accordance with claim 3 in which said means for securing the free ends of complementary second flaps together are provided to leave free flap tips constituting aclamp for gripping therebetween, in the assembled carrier, the complementary rst flaps derived from the same bottle receiving openings.

5. In a portable bottle carrier having score lines and cut lines defining a bottle supporting section, two side sections, two bottle receiving sections with at least two outer and at least one inner bottle receiving opening in each, at least one handle carrying section and a multiple number of strips connecting the handle carrying section and its side section, the improvement in blanks for such bottle carrier which comprises a multiple number of pairs of complementarilyvpositioned first ap's, at least one such pair for each adjacent two outer bottle receiving openings, at least one such first flap in each bottle receiving section forming part of the cut out and scored portions dening a bottle receiving opening and each being connected to its handle carrying section to form in the assembled carrier a substantially vertically extending bottle conning member, a multiple number of pairs of complementarily positioned second ap's, at least one such pair for each adjacent two outer bottle receiving openings, each second flap forming part of the scored and cut portions defining its bottle receiving opening and being connected tu and scored at a marginal side edge of its opening so as to form in the assembled carrier, when said second flap is turned about its score, a. bottle conflning member, and means for securing the free ends of complementary second aps to each other.

6. In a. portable bottle carrier the improvement in accordance with claim 5 in which said means for securing the free ,ends of complementary second aps together are provided to leave free nap tips constituting a clamp for gripping therebetween, `in the assembled carrier, the complelmentenry rst aps derived from the same bottle receiving openings.

STANLEY R. KOOLNIS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

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